Nutrition Checklist for Menu Planning - Healthy Kids

Nutrition Checklist for Menu Planning

Use this checklist to plan each two-week cycle of your service menu. The number of serves recommended is the minimum required to meet the nutritional needs of children when one main meal and two midmeals are provided.

Main Meals

Dairy Foods

Beef/Lamb/Kangaroo

Lean red meat is included on the menu

at least 6 times per fortnight

Chicken/ Fish/ Pork/ Veal/ Non-Meat Meals

A variety of lean white meat/non -meat

meals are included on the menu up to

4 times per fortnight

Non-meat meals are based on eggs,

cheese, tofu or legumes

Raw vegetables or fruit high in vitamin C

are served with the non-meat meal

The menu includes a total of 1 serve

of dairy foods daily

Serving milk at morning and afternoon tea may be an easy and reliable way to meet this requirement.

milk yoghurt cheese custard

*Cream, sour cream and butter are not substitutes for milk, yoghurt and cheese **Choose reduced fat dairy food for children aged 2 years and over

Raw vegetables and fruit high in vitamin C include

Breads, Cereals, Rice and Pasta

citrus fruit tomato cauliflower broccoli

The menu includes at least 2 serves

of bread, cereal, rice or pasta foods daily

kiwi fruit capsicum rockmelon

Iron Containing Foods

On each day that a red meat meal is

served, at least 1 other iron containing

food is included on the menu

On each day that a white meat or non-

meat meal is served, at least 2 other iron

containing foods are included on the menu

Other iron containing foods:

wholemeal bread breakfast cereal dried fruit MiloTM

Vegetables and Fruit

High fibre varieties e.g. multigrain, wholemeal,

high fibre white are included daily

Other breads include: Pita, lavash, Turkish, Lebanese, fruit bread, scones, etc.

Morning and Afternoon Tea (Midmeals)

Midmeals are planned on the menu

as part of the total day's intake

Milk, cheese, yoghurt or custard

is included if necessary to meet the

recommended daily serve

Bread/cereal based foods are included if

necessary to meet the recommended daily

number of serves

The menu includes at least 2 serves

Vegetables and fruit are included if

of vegetables daily

necessary to meet the recommended daily

number of serves

The menu includes at least 1 serve

of fruit daily

*A variety of vegetables and fruit throughout the menu is important.

The above material has been reproduced with the permission of the NSW Ministry of Health, from Caring for Children ? Birth to 5 years (Food, Nutrition and Learning Experiences), 2014. For further information on this resource please visit healthykids..au

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